CBS ‘Early Show’ With … Anderson Cooper and Campbell Brown?Is CBS planning to revamp its morning news show? That’s the word around the water cooler at the Tiffany network, where Katie Couric’s takeover of the evening news has started tongues wagging.The new best-case scenario would be a CBS "Early Show" with CNN’s Anderson Cooper and NBC’s Campbell Brown as cohosts. Where exactly that would leave beloved anchor Harry Smith is anyone’s guess. And the fate of Julie Chen, who is also Mrs. Les Moonves, would be up in the air, too. Moonves is unlikely to remove Chen unless he can find something better for her.The Cooper scenario is not so unattainable, CBS insiders feel. Cooper is already starting to do reports for “60 Minutes,” and CNN has traditionally had a sharing policy with CBS. The latter network seems comfortable with the idea, since it has no cable affiliate of its own.But the Brown idea is the more interesting one. Since she was passed over for the role of Couric’s successor at the "Today" show, Brown has made no secret of her unhappiness.
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